Ling Cheng
Head Of AI, CTO at PathCision Medicine
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLing Cheng is a seasoned AI leader and CTO with 13 years of hands-on experience turning machine learning research into high-impact products across consumer edtech and biotech. She led ML strategy and grew teams at Quizlet, launching generative AI features that powered 40% of content creation and enabled over 10M AI tutor conversations while contributing to 8x subscription revenue growth. At Glassdoor she shipped foundational production models—content moderation and job title classification—that materially reduced manual work and improved core search and personalization. Now leading AI and computational biology at PathCision Medicine, she’s applying computational tissue pathology to discover novel precision therapies aimed at IND readiness. Known for bridging research, product, and trust & safety, she moves fast with rigorous guardrails and a track record of launching early partnerships with OpenAI. A Columbia-trained applied mathematician, she blends technical depth with product instinct and a curiosity for translating ML into real-world human impact.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Applied Math, B.S. Applied Math at Columbia UniversityComputational Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience at NeuromatchHigh School, High School at University Hill SecondaryProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
tlingf/bluebook
Feb 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:51 commits in 10 months
tlingf/RecapYourReads
Jul 2024 - Jul 2024
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 1 day
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